EXPLANATION FROM CHALKPERSON Having been the victim of abduction, assault and sexual abuse by two men when I was aged fifteen, things can trigger my mind into remembering the ordeal, and that is a very frightening experience 47 years later. I often suspected James Levine of being a monster, and John...

EXPLANATION FROM CHALKPERSON Having been the victim of abduction, assault and sexual abuse by two men when I was aged fifteen, things can trigger my mind into remembering the ordeal, and that is a very frightening experience 47 years later. I often suspected James Levine of being a monster, and John...

To jserraglio. You distort my comments a great deal, I would never accuse a member here of being a white supremacist, I suggested their lethal attacks have dulled your senses. To John F. You called me a Troll? Gosh, I’m hurt... To jbuck. You too miss the point. They strike in the us repeatedky at on...

To jserraglio. You distort my comments a great deal, I would never accuse a member here of being a white supremacist, I suggested their lethal attacks have dulled your senses. To John F. You called me a Troll? Gosh, I’m hurt... To jbuck. You too miss the point. They strike in the us repeatedky at on...

My point, Lenny posts tourist snaps after being afraid to walk the high line. The radicalization process is the scariest factor in terrorism. That stretch of the WSH is perfect for this attack, I drove by last night and they were putting the concrete blocks in place. My real point, as shown in the r...

Very sad! He said in a Trump like manner... on wednesday an (alleged) Jihadist allied to ISIS from the Former Soviet Union, in fact from a difficult to spell country not under scrutiny by the present Administration, killed half a dozen people, injured a bunch of others, on the West Side Highway in N...

I have been listening to onlyAfrican Music these last few months. It's Happy Music. 60's to 80's Funk and Soul from Ghana and Nigeria, Soweto's Highlife and Jive, then traditional Mali, Ethiopian, Ivory Coast etc.

My dearest friend, the closest I have to brother, has cancer. He's stuck in Hong Kong and I think it very unlikely we can get him back to Paris, I Skyped with him on Sunday, he was in a Chinese Hospital where they don't wear masks or gloves. Luckily he got out today. Its beyond heartbreaking, but he...

Trump may well be a witting or unwitting Putin pawn. But why in a misguided attempt to fight back and regain control over an unfavorable news cycle (re: Jeff Sessions & the Russians) would he blow the whistle on his own bugging? Was he not aware that in the end the transcript of any intercepted con...

Of course the FBI tapped Trump's phones. He was selling out the country to Vladimir Putin. Now we need the FBI to make those wiretaps public. :mrgreen: Don't be so sure that Trump's phone was tapped. The campaign was targeted, Trump might not be as stupid as he looks, he may have never communicated...

Allen Frances wrote the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. Now read this and think about what he says. An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump’s Mental State FEB. 14, 2017 To the Editor: (NY TIMES) Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump’s psychological motivations and psychiatric ...

The Russians have ben grooming Trump for the presidency for many years, they saw his vulnerabilities. Narcissisism, fame and money. Putin is the Worlds greatest Chess player, he manipulated Trump perfectly, and loaned him hundreds of millions of dollars, hence the No Tax Returns scenario. THE EU and...

Today an INTEL source suggested Trump will die in jail. The calls to Russians have been going on non stop since 2015. The UK, Germany and France also tapped the Russian's phones, they have more INTEL than Congress knows about. Could Impeachment be off the table for Trump, is Treason the new charge...

Evidently, there are intercepts of the contacts between Flynn and the Ruskies going all the way back to last summer. Let's see whether those transcripts eventually come to light and what they might reveal about Trump's possible involvement in the sanctions fiasco or even more explosively, in Russia...

The Word for Today is Kakistography, Google it... All I found was kakistocracy , so I'm guessing kakistography must be a coinage about the Donald's bathetic tweets. They are the worst and, dear donald, lose the caps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/10/how-all-caps-came-to...

What if Senators McCain and Graham conclude that Trump's foreign policy in effect serves the interests of a foreign power? What might happen then? Nothing at all. Articles of impeachment are brought by the House of Representatives; unless they are passed, the Senate has no say. It would be up to Pa...

I'd post more, but the members have said zilch about the new administration, its assault on America, and the Autocracy they are forming by turning the US into a Dicktatorship (sic) Us who resist are not using #thatman's name, but #presidentbannon is dragging this country to its knees, and no CMG mem...

Patti Smith behaved like the most obnoxious spoilt brat in 1975. She wasn't quite as obnoxious as Lou Reed, but it was close. I gave up on her, until now, because she seems to have learned a little about humility. Don't be offended by the title, but Piss Factory, from 1974, is one of THE great punk ...

Patti Smith was approached in September to sing at the Nobel Awards. But the announcements had not been made. Either, Bob knew in advance, refused to show in advance. Or the Nobel Committee knew he'd never show. Either way, they were prepared, they nominated Mr Dylan for the right reasons. BECAUSE J...

Jbuck919 is right: this dispute is not worth losing a valuable friendship over, especially when both sides have so much to offer the rest of us and are so genuine and passionate about their beliefs. Anybody can make a mistake, the point is to correct oneself when it is pointed out, and I think that...

There is a big difference, we disagree on Broadway shows in general. But, we research our opinion. John F did nothing of the sort, he told me I was speaking nonsense, without a shred of evidence except his arrogance. Once he read the speech, given by the American Ambassador, he understood Bob's genu...

I wouldn't be quite that harsh to John Francis, though I find myself uncomfortable being a referee in this case, since both of you are my friends. This topic is not worth taking off the gloves and boxing bare-handed. The Nobel committee made an obvious mistake, which it has done many times before, ...

With that last post you have proven that you are no better than Trump, who you compared me to. You are a buffoon who does not research his facts before mouthing off online. You never researched your opinions, you never read Bob's speech. I told you he was incapable of delivering it, but you waffled ...

Chalkie, you're talking arrant nonsense. "Freedom of speech"? What blather. Bob Dylan is free to speak or sing whatever foolishness comes into his head, and to make tons of money selling it on records and in over 1,000 concerts, but this has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize for Literature. I know...

Ms. Danius is trying to cover the a***s of the a***s in the Swedish Academy who frivolously voted the award to an obviously undeserving and, it turns out, ungrateful person. I used the word "lecture" in my post because that's the word used in the Nobel statute. A "spontaneous discourse" on an appro...

If you think he could have said this in public, then you don't understand how shy and private Robert Zimmerman is. He has always spoken thru his songs. FWIW, I don't go and take a bow when I get awards, citations, or whatever for my photography. It's simple, like Bob, and by bud EC, I don't enter co...

The popular vote is only the voice of those who voted. 47% of eligible voters did not vote. Many Democrats did not vote because 'their' candidate was not the nominee. If the vote had been for a Party, not an individual, what would the result look like? It's an outdated system, the Electoral College,...

I learned a new word for trumps supporters. "The Leaners" They lean over the bar/counter/table, and say quietly... "I'm actually thinking of voting for a Trump" That was his silent majority, they didn't admit to their support publicly, so they were ignored, they all switched from Obama to Trump. Cli...